Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-02-26
ONLY A CLERK.
Who Made the Most OF His Lowry
Position.

NJ hn NARA me MOST o. his AyOAIA Z
Do-;+;on
Nj, Thomas Mather- was only a led
-rr e..rk iu the banking firm Of Hpdg-
>an. Duu:0ri x Payr. !. Swithin'>
,aue. Lombard street. twas neither
q T..v r-.sa-- nor s. very lucrative
q. and Tommy a. All his friends
G..-l hiIl lgu--t. = perhaps fifty
-s.e,s-i vs-a- men IN s similar >iul2-
son tl LllauZ are longing IL Jhl> mo-
nsl-. tsg4 chance Of u11aiaz nj brains
o. letter acluuat taal a4d.l- up col
url4, o.. i--l-e> al1 l19yil- entries
:r.a ua- ID. b--a into another. The
caa.ce j.l no. some. hut Tommy did
10, despair. au6 there was rAis differ
eu.a between him and the great major
irv i aH, fe..lu-n- >1lers ot the desk
hs had the pluck TO work away MAN.
July 81, whatever he thought might pos
S.1iy some day help him to better his
position. even though he could not see
exactly how it was to be done. With
this end in view he got up in French,
German and Italian; and he did every
thing he could 10 pick up information
as to the financial circumstance, Of the
customers of the bank. He scrapcd ac-
quaintance with every clerk employed
Ly those who had accounts at the bank.
u, far as he possibly could, and picked
up in time an idea more or less accurate
IA. 10 the commercial status of the most
OF them.
One day he happened to be at lunch
in hi, fayorite restaurant. when an ac-
ouaintance named Darling came in and
sat down beside him. After Il little cas-
ual conversation Darling asked him to
let him know of any vacant clcrkship
he micht hear of.
II will. certainly. old fellow" re-
turned Tommy, but hope YOU haven't
rot into a row with Appleton" Erred
crick Appleton was Darling's brother
in-law, and he was also the secretary of
The Mudford and County Chemical
Company, in whose c~ounting-house
Young Darling had a subordinate post).
''Oh, no., nothing of the kind" re-
turned Darling; and then he changed
the subject.
On his way back to the bank after
lunch, Mathers asked himself why
Darling should leave his present situa-
ton. He had a capital prospect there,
his brother-in-law being the secretary;
and there wa no disagreement between
him and his influential relative. Could
/, be that Darling had had q hint from
bis bro,her-in-law that the Chemical
Company wa. getting into shallow
water. and tina, it behooved him 10 he
looking ont for another s|ituation2 Il
seemed more than likely; and Young
Mathers determined TO act at once.
H slipped into the bank parlor that
afternoon, hoping TO find the JUNO,
partner, Mr.. Parr, a g~ood-natured sort
at a man, who was not likely to snul
him for volunteering information. TC
his disappointment he found onIy Mr.
Hglg>0u. q -0Ur-trmpcred old man
who was struggling into Nj. oyqrcoaf
preparatory 10 leaving the office for III.
day
We'll" growIed the banker ,.wha.
do you wants
Tommy was an the naint of .,,;n,
that he had come to sne.L to Mr. p,r1r
lint in a mnmant ba ch,rrad nj. mind
II heard something to-day sir " Ia
,qrIied ..tbat mado mo thini, tba, III
Nudford camnanv ara nat, :, ro,.
yood way"
..We1, wb,, os tbo,o wha,.s no, >,
MOI"
..N.,L;uu Ia, 81, l. Al,
wa. mo bat9n in latino Won tnam. -"
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NJ pnnLfn"an :. - IL -,
oon,ian,an rs ha so;.a1 H., -,
an1 mad5Io dam.n ,ha !"
- 81, Ill !r.. -,
III u., n.,,.L IT, S :"
ha wan,aa Lra,,ah. Ii. .I
nar.onal no,iao y, ~, ~. "'"s, '.
Il be haa o;von ,ho hint ta pa,h;"aa,
,bo hood oash;or pa,l;nyoa 49,, T.
vould horo nod al ,ho nro1i, ot;, I
,et;rod IN his nlaco onnnn tha o,t,
CLERKS a little sore ot ,ho ro5rg va, -
entirely dissatisfied. On bisway hn,
AL. Ho1oson ronomhoro1 ,La, q,
hanL holJ como sharao -, ,ho N,,Is,
Chem;c,l Comn,ny os .ocnr;,r Co.., ,
balance If tho [sccount of onc ,f III
customers who uos Jeomoa ra,,
sh,ly Nov, morn;nu aonnrJ;oa,r
,al,nl Tan,mr a. Ill., ,aan, -,
,ioned him a. 10 tho n.,nra 81, h;s j.; =,
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